The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that Journalism Department Lecturer and Associate Chair Harrison Hove has been named interim director of the Innovation News Center (INC), the College’s state-of-the-art, multimedia newsroom. Hove replaces former Director Denise Vickers, who recently left the position.

The award-winning INC provides breaking news and investigative stories to 19 North Central Florida counties. Students work alongside 10 industry professionals as reporters, producers and editors, working together to report the news for the College’s seven media properties, including the local PBS, NPR and ESPN stations, and companion digital and social media platforms.

Hove, B.S. Telecommunication 2005, joined UFCJC in 2017 as a news manager in the INC. In 2019, he became a Journalism Department lecturer and in 2021 was named department associate chair. He was named director of the UFCJC Summer Media Institute, a program for high-school students, in 2022.

Hove, who is also a doctoral candidate at the UF College of Education, was named UF Teacher of the Year in 2021 and received a UF Center for Teaching Excellence Rising Star Award in 2021 and 2022. He received first place in the 2021 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Promising Professors Awards competition sponsored by the Mass Communication and Society Division. Hove’s online “Broadcast Writing Bootcamp” course received a 2021 UF Center for Teaching Excellence Exemplary Online Award and an Instructional Strategy award.

Since 2018, Hove has mentored eight Hearst Journalism Award National Championship participants, including two national winners, and has advised students who have earned three national student Edward R. Murrow Awards and seven professional regional Murrow Awards.

Before joining the College, Hove was a news anchor, reporter and meteorologist at WCMH-TV (NBC4) in Columbus, Ohio, the number one weekend news broadcast. From 2008 – 2012, Hove was a reporter and meteorologist for the Ohio News Network. Prior to that, he was a reporter and meteorologist at KLFY-TV in Lafayette, La. He has won numerous industry awards, including the National Award for Excellence in Science Reporting from the American Meteorological Society, regional Emmy awards in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015, as well as 21 regional Emmy nominations.

Posted: June 1, 2023
Category: Alumni News, College News
Tagged as: Harrison Hove, Innovation News Center